THE DECIDER. HUGE MATCH. DUNDALK FC V CORK CITY

Oat23

Well done Dundalk.

Nice to come on here this morning and see so many posts in a LOI match thread for once.

NIMAN

Cork City

Harry Palmr wrote: »

What's the story with that pitch eh? Its the east coast of Ireland at sea level, shouldn't be allowed. Inverness CT in Scotland are thinking about putting on down, Kilmarnock have one now and are dominant at home this season, TNS have one in Wales and are flying. Seems like an unfair advantage.

And the plans for the redevelopment of the Brandywell include a synthetic pitch.

But we've been waiting so long for a redevelopment, it might be a long time before we are playing on plastic up here.

blingrhino

Cork City

only one team in it last night or was I looking through rosé tinted glasses ?
Oriel was rocking and FairPlay to cork they travelled in numbers .
Even the Saudi prince seem to enjoy it - maybe he will drop us a million. Or two to redevelop the club

NIMAN

Cork City

blingrhino wrote: »

only one team in it last night or was I looking through rosé tinted glasses ?
Oriel was rocking and FairPlay to cork they travelled in numbers .
Even the Saudi prince seem to enjoy it - maybe he will drop us a million. Or two to redevelop the club

I thought it was comfortable enough for Dundalk in the end.
Thought Cork would have created more to be honest.

Richard Hillman

Cork City

Superb second half performance by Dundalk. They were very tense in the first half and I felt it was Corks game at the time. Congratulations to Cork for the season.

A great night for LOI football.

gimmick

Congrats the players of Dundalk. Deserving champions.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

Dundalk deserved the win overall no doubt.

My problems with the night are the stupid fake ****ing pitich and taking off O Flynn and Morrissey and replacing them with (exceptionally good) kids.

City had an unreal season all in all, pity we didn't with the league.

Balmed Out

Congrats to Dundalk, better team won. Disappointed but still it's been a fantastic season for city.
Commiserations Athlone Town, been on a good run but too late.

anncoates

Did the business when it mattered and can't argue with that. Happy for Sean Gannon and SOD as well .

Paz-CCFC

Congratulations to Dundalk. The team deserved this title 100%. 9/9 against us this season and top of the league. Outplayed us in the match and did just about better than us throughout the season to win the title.

Absolutely proud of Cork City Football Club, though. This has been an amazing season for us. To bring it as close as we did when everyone expected mid-table from us was some going. The rendition of the Banks towards the end of the game, despite the title being beyond our grasp, was sung with as much gusto as in any big game we've ever run. Proud that we kept singing to the end and well beyond.

Omackeral

Cork City

^

That looked great on the telly in the dying minutes, all the scarves aloft on the hill. I was thinking "fair play to each and every one of them" given that the league was literally snatched from City's grasp and that long drive home was ahead. Both sets of fans were A1, well done.

Pro. F

Well deserved by Dundalk on the night. Good performance and example of an attacking team holding their nerve in the face of huge pressure. Got a bit scrappy towards the end, but the game lived up to the occasion and was entertaining.

tayto lover

Paz-CCFC wrote: »

Congratulations to Dundalk. The team deserved this title 100%. 9/9 against us this season and top of the league. Outplayed us in the match and did just about better than us throughout the season to win the title.

Absolutely proud of Cork City Football Club, though. This has been an amazing season for us. To bring it as close as we did when everyone expected mid-table from us was some going. The rendition of the Banks towards the end of the game, despite the title being beyond our grasp, was sung with as much gusto as in any big game we've ever run. Proud that we kept singing to the end and well beyond.

Met a gang of lovely Cork people last night. Very nice crowd and not a sign of trouble from each set of supporters. That's the way fans should always behave.

Nib

There won't be a drop of diesel laundered in Dundalk for a month.

Omackeral

Cork City

What did you think of the second half Nib? I know you weren't impressed by the opening 45 as it was scrappy.

Nib

Omackeral wrote: »

What did you think of the second half Nib? I know you weren't impressed by the opening 45 as it was scrappy.

I thought it was decent, at least there was a few chances created. Felt for the players having to play on that surface, can't have been easy keeping the ball on the ground. Nothing worse than watching a game with teams hoofing the ball back and forth to each other.

Corholio

Never came out for the second half which is disappointing. Wrong team selection and wrong subs didnt help. Dundalk were deserved champions, look a more balanced team which we've struggled for at certain points in the season.

What happened the 'sell out'? Loads of empty seats in the temporary stand.

Good night of football though.

losthorizon

Very disappointing for city.

Congrats to Dundalk. Great atmosphere and great attendance for such a small town. The whole of Dundalk must have been in the ground.

I think the league is beginning to improve slightly again after a few years in the doldrums like the economy.

legendary.xix

Congrats to Dundalk! Deserving winners!!

Hard luck to Cork! Ye put up a great challenge and I'm sure it's only the start.

10green bottles

Cork City

Corholio wrote: »

Never came out for the second half which is disappointing. Wrong team selection and wrong subs didnt help. Dundalk were deserved champions, look a more balanced team which we've struggled for at certain points in the season.

What happened the 'sell out'? Loads of empty seats in the temporary stand.

Good night of football though.

We were joking about that ffs.LOL did yous not get the joke?:pac:

Nib

Nib wrote: »

Awful to watch. Hoof, hoof, hoof.

In fairness to Nib, he did stop supporting Liverpool during the Rafa years.

Oh he didn't? And his post is thus laughable? Fair enough.

blingrhino

Cork City

quote-"What happened the 'sell out'? Loads of empty seats in the temporary stand."

They were in the shed instead - could nt bring themselves to pass

dreamers75

Well done Dundalk.

ShamoBuc

Congrats to dundalk. Better team won. Super year for city. Great to be involved at the business end of the year. Looking forward to what Caulfield will bring us next season.

NIMAN

Cork City

Was Delaney at the game last night?

MonkeyTennis

Cork City

can I just say, unsurprisingly.. Cork Fans were fantastic. Met loads of them in town on the night.

justshane

Cork City

Anyone know the attendance?

MonkeyTennis

Cork City

i think it was about 5-6k ..

Hammer Archer

Pighead must still be on the lash.

monkey9

Hammer Archer wrote: »

Pighead must still be on the lash.

When Pat's won the league last year, I had to ring into work 'sick'. Great times.

AgileMyth

monkey9 wrote: »

When Pat's won the league last year, I had to ring into work 'sick'. Great times.

When we won it the previous year I wasn't even fit to ring in. Luckily they didn't expect me anyway!

legendary.xix

Last 10 champions:
2014 Dundalk
2013 St. Patrick's Athletic
2012 Sligo Rovers
2011 Shamrock Rovers
2010 Shamrock Rovers
2009 Bohemians
2008 Bohemians
2007 Drogheda United
2006 Shelbourne
2005 Cork City

8 different champions over a 10 year period is far from predictable and reflects a competitive league.

NIMAN

Cork City

legendary.xix wrote: »

Last 10 champions:
2014 Dundalk
2013 St. Patrick's Athletic
2012 Sligo Rovers
2011 Shamrock Rovers
2010 Shamrock Rovers
2009 Bohemians
2008 Bohemians
2007 Drogheda United
2006 Shelbourne
2005 Cork City

8 different champions over a 10 year period is far from predictable and reflects a competitive league.

We should have been in that list at least once too.:(

flas

legendary.xix wrote: »

Last 10 champions:
2014 Dundalk
2013 St. Patrick's Athletic
2012 Sligo Rovers
2011 Shamrock Rovers
2010 Shamrock Rovers
2009 Bohemians
2008 Bohemians
2007 Drogheda United
2006 Shelbourne
2005 Cork City

8 different champions over a 10 year period is far from predictable and reflects a competitive league.

This is not a dig or anything like that at all, but just looking at that list I thought for some reason sligo had won the league morethan once in the last 10 years! For all the money they have spent and the full time set up and players they had and football they played surely one league is a very poor return!? Id like to hear for the sligo lads on here what their thoughts are?

hjkl

flas wrote: »

This is not a dig or anything like that at all, but just looking at that list I thought for some reason sligo had won the league morethan once in the last 10 years! For all the money they have spent and the full time set up and players they had and football they played surely one league is a very poor return!? Id like to hear for the sligo lads on here what their thoughts are?

Sligo were at the best at the same time Shamrock Rovers were. That's why they don't have more title.

Omackeral

Cork City

Sligo won the FAI Cup in 2010, 2011 and 2013. Could be mixing that up perhaps? In a span of 4 years they captured 3 FAI Cups as well as a League Cup (part of a cup double in 2010), a Setanta Cup and a League title. Not too shabby.

doncarlos

Cork City

flas wrote: »

For all the money they have spent and the full time set up and players they had and football they played surely one league is a very poor return!? Id like to hear for the sligo lads on here what their thoughts are?

Could replace Sligo with Drogheda. What was it €12 million over 4 years they spent? Absolutely shocking.

overshoot

Also worth noting 10years ago Sligo were finishing 5th in D1.

Iused2likebusts

legendary.xix wrote: »

Last 10 champions:
2014 Dundalk
2013 St. Patrick's Athletic
2012 Sligo Rovers
2011 Shamrock Rovers
2010 Shamrock Rovers
2009 Bohemians
2008 Bohemians
2007 Drogheda United
2006 Shelbourne
2005 Cork City

8 different champions over a 10 year period is far from predictable and reflects a competitive league.

That's a great stat I'd be surprised if there is another league in Europe that has figures like that.

legendary.xix

The last 4 champions and Cork seem in position to dominate the top 5 places. Derry and Limerick though will be looking to challenge. If Tommy Dunne gets Galway promoted, it'll be interesting to see how they'll get on in the Premier.

doncarlos

Cork City

overshoot wrote: »

Also worth noting 10years ago Sligo were finishing 5th in D1.

10 years ago Dundalk finished third last in first.

flas

It must have been the cups that made me think otherwise!

AgileMyth

flas wrote: »

This is not a dig or anything like that at all, but just looking at that list I thought for some reason sligo had won the league morethan once in the last 10 years! For all the money they have spent and the full time set up and players they had and football they played surely one league is a very poor return!? Id like to hear for the sligo lads on here what their thoughts are?

At no stage were we the biggest spenders in the league. 2011 was probably when we were at our best but shams were too much for us that year.

They fell apart the following year and we took it.

Following year was the only other time we had a chance. Spent all season with an injury list of about ten players. Not much you can do about that.

Worth noting that we've spent big money improving the ground and training facilities too instead of the usual league of Ireland thing of spending everything you have (and sometimes don't have) on players wages.

RED L4 0TH

Some shots from Oriel from Friday night.

dreamers75

legendary.xix wrote: »

Last 10 champions:
2014 Dundalk
2013 St. Patrick's Athletic
2012 Sligo Rovers
2011 Shamrock Rovers
2010 Shamrock Rovers
2009 Bohemians
2008 Bohemians
2007 Drogheda United
2006 Shelbourne
2005 Cork City

8 different champions over a 10 year period is far from predictable and reflects a competitive league.

Its not competitve, who ever pays the most for certain players wins the league.

Its actually ****e as it doesnt make a competive league it makes the opposite. Who has the money will win.

It goes to a saying you hear in the LSL " X are good this year" hardly club/brand/history building.

Can win the league one year then run out of money and be relegated the next....its not a good thing.

NIMAN

Cork City

There was a guy on The Last Word a while back who did footy stats, and he studied spending v success across European leagues for the last few decades, and it generally followed in football that whoever spent the most, won the most, irrespective of manager.

DundalkDuffman

NIMAN wrote: »

There was a guy on The Last Word a while back who did footy stats, and he studied spending v success across European leagues for the last few decades, and it generally followed in football that whoever spent the most, won the most, irrespective of manager.

There's a book by Simon Kuper called Soccernomics and it comes to basically the same conclusion, perhaps it was that guy on the radio

TopBombing

Cork City

What an amazing night that was in Oriel, and the general buzz around the Town all weekend, great to see.

We fully deserved the League trophy after that season, played some of the best football I've seen in the League of Ireland for many years.

Badly need a liver replacement now though!!

SantryRed

Cork City

legendary.xix wrote: »

Last 10 champions:
2014 Dundalk
2013 St. Patrick's Athletic
2012 Sligo Rovers
2011 Shamrock Rovers
2010 Shamrock Rovers
2009 Bohemians
2008 Bohemians
2007 Drogheda United
2006 Shelbourne
2005 Cork City

8 different champions over a 10 year period is far from predictable and reflects a competitive league.

Maybe the past few years but 2005-2009 all those clubs went through financial difficulty after winning the league.

NIMAN

Cork City

SantryRed wrote: »

Maybe the past few years but 2005-2009 all those clubs went through financial difficulty after winning the league.

... and some went through financial difficulty trying to win the league:o